The Golden Bean is the world’s largest coffee roasters competition and conference

This competition endeavors to find North America’s best coffee roasting business with coffees being judged as Espresso, Milk and Filter beverages with medals awarded 11 award categories.

The conference attracts attendance from over 100 coffee roasting businesses and consists of a number of educational workshops and social functions.

This event has been running successfully now for over twelve years in Australia and has been one of the key elements in the growth of the Australian coffee industry by way of rewarding the coffee roasters, the vital person in the chain for all coffee businesses.

Coffee companies submit their entries on a predetermined date and the coffees are judged through a blind tasting format, in 10 different categories and brew methods. The coffees are judged by roasters that attend the event to participate and enjoy the three-day competition and conference.

The Golden Bean invites roasters to not only send in their entries but also to participate in the seminars and fun sponsored evenings. This creates a valuable opportunity for roasters to network with each other and form great alliances within the industry.

How to Win a Golden Bean?

Winners of all 10 categories are awarded Gold, Silver and Bronze medals.

To become a Golden Bean Champion, and take home a custom Reg Barber made Golden Bean Trophy, roasters need to enter a coffee into three categories: Espresso, Milk Based & Filter.

NB: Winners of categories 4-7,11 are awarded Gold, Silver and Bronze medals, but scores do not contribute to Overall Champion. Coffee will need to be commercially available coffee pre and post competition.